Volume 115 Issue 500 (January 2005)
Consumption and Habits: Evidence from Panel Data
Raquel Carrasco, José M. Labeaga, J. David López‐Salido
THE DATA1_EJ and DATA2_EJ FILES ARE TAKEN FROM THE ECPF
THE DATA SETS CONSIST OF 14602 AND 11242 OBSERVATIONS RESPECTIVELY ON 46 VARIABLES.
THE FILE DATA1_EJ CONTAINS INFORMATION FOR THE PERIOD 85:I-90:I.
THE FILE DATA2_EJ CONTAINS INFORMATION FOR THE PERIOD 91:I-95:IV.
The number of observations used in the paper are obtained once all the lags and differences of the variables are taken and observations with missing values are dropped out.
lexpf: log of the expenditure on food
lexpt: log of the expenditure on transport
lexpser: log of the expenditure services
lexpcol: log of the expenditure on conditioning goods
ageh: Age of the head
ded1: dummy for education, Illiterate
ded2: Secondary education
ded3: University education
drura: Rural area
dcity: Urban area
nchild: Number of children
dhome: Home ownership
dwwif: Working wife
dspw: Working head
trend: Time trend
dq1-dq3: Quarterly dummies
da86-da94: Yearly dummies
dsel: Head Self-employed
dwcwo: Head white collor
dpartsp: Head part-time
dpartw: Wife part-time
dfcom2-dfcom5: Household type
agew: Age of the wife
lpf: log prices of food
lpt: log prices of transport
lpser: log prices of services
lpcol: log prices pf conditioning goods
i: interest rate
lincome: log income
iden1: individual identifier
int_numb: Interview number
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